As the visionary leader of the Soma Family of Churches, Saturate and the lead teaching pastor at Doxa Church in Bellevue, WA, Jeff Vanderstelt gets to spend his days doing what he loves – training disciples of Jesus to make more disciples of Jesus and equipping the Church in the gospel and missional living. Jeff is the author of Saturate, Saturate Field Guide and Gospel Fluency. He and Jayne, his wife of twenty-four years, have three children; Haylee, Caleb, and Maggie. Connect with Jeff at saturatetheworld.com or on twitter @JeffVanderstelt.
For far too many Christians, the idea of being part of a church simply means attending a Sunday morning service, maybe a small group, or a sprinkling of special events each year. Is that what God had in mind for his bride, the Church, when he sent his son to save her?
Jesus commanded the disciples, to develop a disciple-making culture where all of life becomes the platform for disciple-making. Here are 6 questions to ask to see if you're on the right track.
A very large majority of Christians see only a very small percentage of their lives dedicated to the mission of making disciples. It’s time to equip and mobilize Jesus’ church out of the building and into life.
Please pray for us as we consider this together. And if the Lord should so lead us to replant a new church, pray for healing, for wisdom for establishing a new leadership culture, and above all else that we keep Jesus at the top of the org chart and humbly serve Him well on the Eastside.
This Halloween offers a great opportunity for many to engage in new relationships with those around us or to revisit some old relationships with new missional intentionality. Here are 12 simple ways.
The Church has got to get rid of its dualism and say "You are the church." Now everything counts. Find out why on this video clip from Verge Conference by Jeff Vanderstelt and Caesar Kalinowski.